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Flash Files can now be indexed

Posted by Chris under Adobe, Browsers, Firefox, Flash, Google, Search Engines, Yahoo

Thanks Russ and Adam for notes (via email and twitter) on adobe’s recent announcement regarding technology for search engines to index flash. Interestingly it’s an application for the search engines that acts like a virtual user going through each application/website and actually goes through the runtime of each flash application.

Hmmm, no comment from me yet on what impact lots of spiders hitting flash sites may have, that and I’m wondering how it will show up in search logs. As in “wow our site traffic is way up,” “no that’s just the adobe virtual flash user indexing our site.”

However this is an exciting announcement given how much of Element79’s client work (and own site) is flash, that and helping promote an even better reason to build in Flex/Flash.

I’m speaking at Google’s Chicago office today so I’ll have to ask Jim Lecinski what he thinks about this as well as Aaron Goldman (resolution media) who will be there as well.

Bring on SEO for flash!

How much do I like Firefox 3, let me count the ways

Posted by Chris under Browsers, Firefox, Social Networking, Technology, Uncategorized, plugins

More intuitive interface - back button only lights up when you can go back and a UI reflective of the system that it is on.

Better handling of passwords.

Smart location Bar - just type in a term and the autocomplete functions like it’s on steroids by showing a list that includes possible matching sites from your browsing history, as well as sites you’ve bookmarked and tagged in a drop down. You can even enter in terms and matched terms are highlighted, making the list of results easy to scan.

Have to love the bookmarks. Both in Firefox 3 and it’s integration with Del.icio.us. Get the Del.icio.us add on and away you go, making it more of the default place to save your bookmarks. One click / Two click book marking functionality. - One click on the star icon at the end of the location bar bookmarks a site. Two clicks and you can choose where to save it and whether to tag it. Then you can find your bookmarked sites in a flash by entering the tag, page or bookmark name into the location bar. The more you use your tags and bookmark names in the location bar, the more the system will adapt to your preferences. But hey with the Del.icio.us add in you can do all this and more

One for you, I want to open as many tabs as possible people, Reopen Closed Tabs -If you accidentally close a tab, you can reopen it in one click. Just view Recently Closed Tabs in the History menu and select the tab you’d like to reopen.

Now I just wonder when my second favorite browser, Flock is going to update to FF3’s features as well